Example sentences of "and [verb] [to-vb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd have been taken to a guardroom and asked to explain myself . " |
| 2 | Further , with a little prompting ( i.e. respondents presented with a standard list of classes and asked to place themselves ) the overwhelming majority of respondents were willing to assign themselves to the ‘ middle ’ or ‘ working ’ classes or some sub-division of these . |
| 3 | As a result , an agreement was signed that about 50 rebel leaders could return to Nicaragua on condition that , like the returning contras , they renounced the armed struggle and illegal activities and agreed to incorporate themselves into the political system . |
| 4 | I think Sussex has got to find a new , new hat , and got to express itself and demonstrate that it is in no sense relying on twenty five years of erm of erm fairly high reputation that the next twenty five years and the next twenty five years after that are just as challenging , perhaps even more so . |
| 5 | So , together with his engraving , etching and aquatinting materials and his pigments for colours which he always mixed carefully himself , it was in the summer of 1800 that he decided to go north ( to the Lakes ) to begin once again and to try to rid himself of all he had learnt over the last decade and ‘ to adhere as faithfully as possible to nature . |
| 6 | Which man wants to admit that he 's a wimp and needs to assert himself ? |
| 7 | The Labour Party must continue to reject the tax on the low paid , the young , the elderly , and needs to commit itself to a restoration of the Wages Councils , an increase in the power of the Wages Councils , and an improvement in the Wages Inspectorate , to ensure that all employers who break the minimum wages legislation be detected and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law . |
| 8 | They do this because they are not as quick as the opposition and want to give themselves as much time as possible to play the ball , no matter that they also give the other player more time . |
| 9 | It was difficult to anticipate which direction this visualisation would take ; it might be entirely subjective or Ari might manifest physical sensations and want to touch herself . |
| 10 | If , on the other hand you have an open mind , and want to understand yourself and other people , then an exciting discovery lies ahead . |
| 11 | She blew out through her lips and pretended to fan herself . |
| 12 | Yeah , yeah I hate people who park on the ramp and causes to put yourself to a hill start , they are a |
| 13 | I put weight on my hands and tried to push myself up off the floor . |
| 14 | She leaned against the wooden wall , and tried to flatten herself as a tall thin man came out of an adjacent door and turned in her direction . |
| 15 | I can say to the governor that you misunderstood the order and tried to defend yourself . |
| 16 | Dara seized a kitchen knife and tried to defend himself , but the thugs overpowered him . |
| 17 | The elder of the two policemen smiled at Sarah but she dropped her eyes and tried to busy herself at the sink . |
| 18 | The film sped up as Cameron ran out of the building , still in his tailcoat , and tried to lose himself in the streets around the Barbican . |
| 19 | ‘ Who lives there in splendour so solitary that in June nineteen forty-one he jumped from a balcony and tried to kill himself . |
| 20 | Then a few weeks after her husband died Mary took a large number of pills and tried to kill herself . |
| 21 | During her last imprisonment in Holloway in 1911–12 , when several hundred women were being forcibly fed , she thought her death would end this mass torture and tried to kill herself by throwing herself downstairs ; although seriously injured , she survived . |
| 22 | Hilda got hysterical and tried to kill herself with aspirins . |
| 23 | ‘ You attacked me and tried to force yourself upon me , you wanted to blackmail me , you followed me around and spied on me in Helmsley — and you say I 've nothing to fear ! ’ |
| 24 | David acknowledged the gentle criticism and tried to justify himself . |
| 25 | I felt uneasy and depressed and tried to cheer myself up shopping , but there was nothing I wanted and I caught any early train home . |
| 26 | I put both palms flat on the decaying undergrowth and tried to heave myself up on to my knees . |
| 27 | He got hold of the polished tip of one of his shoes , and tried to pull himself away from the wall . |
| 28 | I sat down behind my desk and tried to pull myself together ; I was trembling suddenly , and I felt the hollowness inside me growing into a pain . |
| 29 | Jess gulped and tried to pull herself together . |
| 30 | Stunned but ineffectual , she yelled in righteous rage and tried to pull herself to her feet , wanting nothing else but to throw herself at Duvall as … |